Race Quotes
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The second [argument about motion] is the so-called Achilles, and it amounts to this, that in a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead.
Zeno of Elea -
Life is not a race, but a journey to be savoured each step of the way. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery and today is a gift. That's why we call it the present.
Brian Dyson
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My potential is more than can be expressed within the bounds of my race or ethnic identity.
Arthur Ashe -
A genius may perhaps be a century ahead of his age and hence stands there as a paradox, but in the end, the race will assimilate what was once a paradox, so it is no longer paradoxical.
Soren Kierkegaard -
I had a gut feeling that Dance Daily was coming up to it very well. I felt that she would make a little bit of noise in the race. She did.
D. Wayne Lukas -
One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.
James Mercer Broken Bells -
Let the Jews who claim to be the chosen race prove their title by choosing the way of non-violence for vindicating their position on earth. Every country is their home, including Palestine, not by aggression but by loving service.
Mahatma Gandhi -
What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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However I am looking forward to the two new Grands Prixs both Shanghai and Laguna Seca are fantastic tracks and it will be good to race at them.
Valentino Rossi -
She belonged to the great race of human beings who regard life as a series of piracies of all powers.
Christina Stead -
There will be strange ebbs and flows in the tide of race feelings.
Amy Levy -
The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help. And when you can improve that ability all the way up along the line, you've improved about all there is to improve about a person.
L. Ron Hubbard -
During the race, we lose 2-4 kilos of liquids.
Lewis Hamilton -
In 1998 Harry Reid and I had a very close race. It was less than a tenth of a percentage point. We had a reasonable recount. There were a lot of things that I could have pursued at the time, but I just felt that at the time that I should have, you know, conceded the race.
John Ensign
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Normally with any of the races, we go a bit early to get used to the time zone and acclimatize. We'll have a couple of days to see the places. My favorites so far are Montreal and Abu Dhabi. With Abu Dhabi, the facilities are excellent and the weather is always good.
Valtteri Bottas -
I will be satisfied if my epitaph shall be written thus: 'Here lies one who never rose to any eminence, who only courted the low ambition to have it said that he striven to ameliorate the condition of the poor, the lowly, the downtrodden of every race and language and color.'
Thaddeus Stevens -
Here is something that the psychologists have so far neglected: the love of ugliness for its own sake, the lust to make the world intolerable. Its habitat is the United States. Out of the melting pot emerges a race which hates beauty as it hates truth.
H. L. Mencken -
The race of the guardians must be kept pure.
Plato -
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race.
Robert W. Service -
It's like a mile race and you're 50 yards ahead. This is as close as it can be without being a tie.
Gary Player
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My concern was first, for the black people of Mississippi, then I became concerned for black people nationwide, now my concern is for black people all over the world. I began to realize that it's not as much about race as we think it is. It's about the rich vs. the poor. I feel as if the different races are pitted against one another so we won't see the bigger (financial disparity) problem.
David Banner -
Consciousness is endless, from one incarnation to the next. It simply will and does manifest in other places and times, regardless of what becomes of the human race.
Zeena Schreck -
The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all of the things that differentiate us - race, language, religion, gender, wealth and so on - we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity.
Dalai Lama -
It's not racist if I like the race. But I don't like Asian people.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace